Back in the game! sort of.

[Plec123]

So, some of you may have seen that my hermit crab 5gal leaked. WELL, i dug up an old 10gal and have decided to give it another go. now i have my (very) live sand, getting some aragonite, and buying a pound or live rock from my stepdad's friend. im gonna ask him for his nastiest, most aptasia, bristleworm, and manjano covered LR piece. then my 10gal will have more life. i also picked up a 10w daylight CFL ("screw-in") for the tank since its hood was made for incandescent bulbs. this tank is gonna rock! if my friend "accidentally" leaves any corals on my rock like he has in the past (got some nice zoas once) the tank will rock even more!

So yeah, im gonna give it another go!

 

[perfect_prefect]

woo hoo rock out with your 10 gallon out lol. i cant knock it i have a 20 long set up with 20 lbs of lr and a magnum hot pro hob canister with a bio wheel just for a pair of corral banded shrimp lol sometimes the simplest tanks are killer

 

[Plec123]

woo hoo rock out with your 10 gallon out lol. i cant knock it i have a 20 long set up with 20 lbs of lr and a magnum hot pro hob canister with a bio wheel just for a pair of corral banded shrimp lol sometimes the simplest tanks are killer

simplicity can be great sometimes. i just need SOME things to watch and ill be set. like, my friends LR is generally packed with mini brittle stars, stomatella snails, asterinas, peanut worms, all the good stuff.

 

[sikoko]

awesome

 

[FLESHY]

Peanut worms are so weird.

This all sounds good...majano and aptasia will kill small zoas and pally though, and even if they dont, they will stop them from spreading. So, you might want to invest in a couple peppermint shrimp to eat them off the rock for you.

 

[perfect_prefect]

i would go with nudibranches rather than peppermints

 

[Plec123]

then ill ask not to receive coral lol, whatever coats the rock fastest is fine with me, and those little grees pest anemones look, actually, very nice if you dont have anything in the tank that they can kill. theyre a nice shade of green. aptasia look cool too oncce they get big.
maybe ill just head to the pet store and ask if i can take their aptasia (by means of cutting them up so they will spread easier in my tank.), im sure no store will mind if i try to clean out their pest animal population lol.

 

[FLESHY]

i would go with nudibranches rather than peppermints

I have never had aptasia in a tank that had a colony of peppermints. Nudibranchs are usually VERY specific predators, and once they run out of a food source will die, and a nudi death is akin to that of an anemone. After you experience it once, its not something that you want to go back to. Peppermints can diversify, and will reproduce in system quite easily, producing food for everything in the tank. When they die, you just take them out if the hermits or other shrimp dont get to them first.

THAT being said, there are some larger, higher quality LFS's that offer "Rent-A-Nudibranch" and these can be just the ticket. Dont pay the full price for the animal, get your infestation under control, go about your business.

Peppermints have their drawbacks as well, some may even pick at larger anemones. I rep um cause I love um...so that was my .02

then ill ask not to receive coral lol, whatever coats the rock fastest is fine with me, and those little grees pest anemones look, actually, very nice if you dont have anything in the tank that they can kill. theyre a nice shade of green. aptasia look cool too oncce they get big.
maybe ill just head to the pet store and ask if i can take their aptasia (by means of cutting them up so they will spread easier in my tank.), im sure no store will mind if i try to clean out their pest animal population lol.

I think I must be going crazy. You want them to spread faster? I mean...I guess they look cool, but you can get cooler soft corals that are just as easy to keep and will keep the tank more interesting for you once you have it settled in and dont have anything to do. You can keep adding soft corals, fragging, ect to keep yourself involved with the tank. I dont see why you wouldnt rather have this, esp when its so easy. BUT, if aptasia is what you want, you can surely have it.

 

[Plec123]

I have never had aptasia in a tank that had a colony of peppermints. Nudibranchs are usually VERY specific predators, and once they run out of a food source will die, and a nudi death is akin to that of an anemone. After you experience it once, its not something that you want to go back to. Peppermints can diversify, and will reproduce in system quite easily, producing food for everything in the tank. When they die, you just take them out if the hermits or other shrimp dont get to them first.

THAT being said, there are some larger, higher quality LFS's that offer "Rent-A-Nudibranch" and these can be just the ticket. Dont pay the full price for the animal, get your infestation under control, go about your business.

Peppermints have their drawbacks as well, some may even pick at larger anemones. I rep um cause I love um...so that was my .02



I think I must be going crazy. You want them to spread faster? I mean...I guess they look cool, but you can get cooler soft corals that are just as easy to keep and will keep the tank more interesting for you once you have it settled in and dont have anything to do. You can keep adding soft corals, fragging, ect to keep yourself involved with the tank. I dont see why you wouldnt rather have this, esp when its so easy. BUT, if aptasia is what you want, you can surely have it.

im doing this... erm... without trying to spend money. yeah, i think it can be done. ima get some of my coral skeletons laying around, and put them in for decor along with a piece of LR or two, and collect some algae from my fowlr tank to put in there. if i can get my friend to take the time to hack up some manjano anemones, ill take those rather than aptasia. though id rather just get some from the store.
maybe they have manjanos... and im gonna need bristleworms...
ah well it will work out.

 

[FLESHY]

Ha ha, whatever floats your boat man. I guess those of us who dont have to pay to purify our water can blow cash on things like corals.